Day 23 (Osaka) : It's too hot

It's cloudy and the weather report is calling for rain tomorrow. So why exactly does it feel like a raging inferno in my apartment. At this rate AC is going to become mandatory life support in a few weeks. I've already had to resort to turning on my exhaust tray to keep my laptop from melting.

Weather points aside, school is moving along rapidly. I wonder if it's because I scored in one of the upper classes or if every class room moves at the same pace. It's only been six days and it's already difficult to count the number of grammar points we've covered. I made time after school today to get into my own studies and I finished another chapter of Japanese for College students. It's about at the same place that we were on day one or two in class.

I would work through the school text to get a better understanding but there are two problems. The book has no English at all, so I have to have a pretty solid grasp of upper level Japanese to understand the explanations of simple Japanese grammar rules. (Kind of mixed up, huh?) The second problem is that the class bounces around so much that we aren't really following any chapter layout. We'll work on page 284 during one of the hour periods and the next we'll be on 74 and then 242. I spend a lot of time studying my own notes so I can have some kind of grasp on the method that we were taught in.

No reason to drag this out, I'm going to get back to my studies.